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Fiat has launched an updated four-wheel drive version of its Fiat Panda city car at a time when sales of Fiat cars have fallen to 40-year lows in the face of the economic slowdown in Europe.

And this four-by-four, which completes a revision of the Panda’s line-up, is being built in Fiat’s Naples factory where troubles are never too far away.

After restarting production lines less than a year ago, the factory has been forced to suspend operations and send its workers home on reduced pay for extended periods of time because Fiat hasn’t been able to sell enough of these Pandas.

In addition, an Italian court recently ordered Fiat to rehire 145 workers that had previously worked at the plant. They and thousands of other workers had been on forced leave while Fiat refurbished the factory in preparation for the arrival of the latest version of the Panda.